Cultivate a deep understanding of yourself - not only what your strengths and weaknesses are but also how you learn, how you work with others, what your values are, and where you can make the greatest contribution. Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence.

Every enterprise is learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels, training and development that never stop.

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.

The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.

It’s up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive during a work life that may span some 50 years.